A predisposition to brutality?
- The German Sonderweg thesis has been discarded in most research fields. Yet in regards to the military, things differ: all conflicts before the Second World War are interpreted as prelude to the war of extermination between 1939-1945. This article specifically looks at the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 and German behaviour vis-a-vis regular combatants, civilians and irregular guerrilla fighters, the so-called francs-tireurs. The author argues that the counter-measures were not exceptional for nineteenth century warfare and also shows how selective reading of the existing secondary literature has distorted our view on the war.
Author details: | Bastian Matteo SciannaGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2019.1638551 |
ISSN: | 0959-2318 |
ISSN: | 1743-9558 |
Title of parent work (English): | Small wars and insurgencies |
Subtitle (German): | german practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870-1871 and their |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2019 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Release date: | 2021/01/05 |
Tag: | Franco-Prussian War; Francs-tireurs; Geneva convention of 1864; Landwehr; levee en masse; myth of Franktireurkrieg; siege of Paris 1870 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 4-5 |
Number of pages: | 26 |
First page: | 968 |
Last Page: | 993 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; [165] |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 165 |